Vital Things To Check Before Using An Open-Source Project

Especially for the enterprises

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Open source has stormed the software world for ages. Plenty of companies not only use open-source projects but also contribute back to the communities. And the open technology world is growing every day. We can not imagine the software world without some projects like Linux, Postgres SQL, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Python, Tensorflow, and more — the list is unending.

In an enterprise world, it is essential to understand how open-source projects are being used. Some of these reasons are:

• Some open-source projects might have a license that will not allow you to distribute your software commercially
• Some open-source project licenses might allow you to use use it commercially only when you make all your source code open
• some open-source project might be maintained by developers of only one organization
• some open-source projects might be using some dependencies which have security vulnerabilities
• some open-source projects might not have been following DevOps best practices
• and many more

In this article, I am going to discuss all things you should check before using an open-source project and…